The Press., 1887-11-10

 est possible moment Where all or many do so of course there is lack of room and time to accommodate all.
 THE friends of the doomed anarchists have dropped all questions of law, and now plead solely for mercy and considerations of policy. They have, however, by their defiant posi-
 tion heretofore, and ''blood for blood" talk,
 made it hard for the government to show mercy without sacrifice of its own self re-
 spect. Besides, the mercy argument is on
 the other side. In future the faithful police
 man who stands between the innocent public and violence must feel that the government
 he defends is, in turn, his protector.
 THIS section of Connections has furni he'd
 to contagious Massachusetts districts three
 worthy members in the next Bay State legisla-
 ature. A. Olin Brooks, who represents
 Springfield district, is son of James F. Brooks
 of Stafford Springs, formerly a merchant
 here, now grocer in Springfield. He
 will do credit us a legislator to his native. and
 adopted town and state. Charles F. Gros-
 venor of Ludlow is son of Rev. C.P. .Grosvenor
 of Pomfret and cousin of Ex-Senator Grosvenor
 of the same town. He is coal dealer, and 8
 prosperous and esteemed citizen of his town.
 His district includes Palmer and several oth-
 CT towns. Senator-elect Chas. c. Spellman
 of Springfield is native Of Hampden, Mass,
 but of Stafford stock. He isa a democrat but
 is chosen in "a republican district by republi-
 can votes, showing degree of popularity
 with all his associates that has already been
 evidenced.
 TUEsDAY's elections divided honors between
 the parties quite impartially. In Massa-
 large majority. In New York the democrats
 elected their secretary of state by 16,O00
 plurality. The reform Esanti poodle ticket" in
 the city was defsated by the regular demo- cratic ticket. In Rhode Island the 1epubi- cans regain their congressman which they failed to elect last fall, a majority then being required ,.and the democratic candidate then } getting plurality. Ohio gives Foral1er g plurality of over 18,O0O, large republican gain. Maryland goes democratic by about 10000 majority. Mississippi is nearly unani , nously democratic. Pennsylvania is repub hcan by about 37,OOO majority. Virginia is ) strongly democratic, and a democratic sue cessor will sit in Riddlebergers seat. Iowe ; and Nebraska are republican, of course. De ! troit elected democratic city officers, and
 Chicago republican. Oregon voted down 9 prohibition amendment by 5000 majority 3 Dakota gave small majority for prohibi tory amendment. New York and New Jersey D have republican legislatures, and the republi 0 cans made gains in the legislatures of Vir Q ginia and Maryland.
 0 THE attitude of The Press on the grad J crossing question is inquired into It is this n The grade crossing must go. And, as Con 0 necticut is one of the most thickly settled D states, and is getting completely gridironec n by railroads, and as we are almost week.,
 startled by intelligence of disaster and los Q of life on some one of the many death trap , to be found on nearly every road, this stat should be one of the first to move in the mat
 ter. No more grade crossings should b
 made, and those now in existence should b 5 removed as rapidly as possible, towns stat 0 and corporations cooperating, putting tn 5 expense in each case where it justly belongs . But the folly of calling together in extra ses
 sion the same legislators who so negligentl 5 passed over this matter last winter strongl D D impresses the people of this section. Thes n men could not meet this question before 5 Let another body of men grapple with it mex
 time. An extra session of the legislatur U U should never be called except to meet al 5 emergency. The present emergency is n
 greater than it was year ago, and a prece 3 dent established in this first term of bien nial legislature would be too likely to put u Q back substantially in the same annual sessiol 5 rut from which we have just extricated our U selves. These views we have expressed be 03 fore. Let us do away with grade crossings
 also with annual legislative sessions.
 D Evidently the Herald doesn't care fo 5 the Worlds circulation figures, for i D prints at the top-of it's editorial column 0 "This paper has the largest. circulation il 0 the United States. ''-Hartford Times. 5 What of that? Most American newspa S pers do have their largest circulation il 0 the United States.
 5 The debt of the United States has beer 0 regularly reduced for about twenty years 0 Its highest point was about two thousan, 5 eight hundred millions of dollars twent, years ago. It is now $1, ,675, ,O76, 715. 2G 9 But of this $611, ,295, 767. l2 bears no inter est, leaving the interest-bearing deb 9 $1 ,049, 532 985. O2, including interest due U But in this sum are the Pacific railroad O per cent. bonds issued for the road by tn 2 government of $64,623, ,512. Deduct thi 2 from the interest-bearing bonds, and ther o remain less than a thousand millions o 5 dollars of interest bearing debt, viz, $984, 5 9O9, ,473 Under the law there should bes Q good sum every year put into the sinkin, fund. The amount of reduction of tn 5 debt in the month of October was $16, D 933, 1895. n The great bruiser, John l.. Sullivan, ar 5 rived at Liverpool Saturday. He was me 5 by a crowd, who tried to unharness tn hnr oR lof4s . 1-